<div dir="ltr"><p>The current Atom platform and the Poulsbo platform havea PCI bus, it's successor, Moorestown, will have no PCI bus and this is pointed as a problem to run Windows in it, Linux, I've heard, will work fine even without the PCI bus.<br>
</p><p>If coreboot is to be eventually ported to that platform, I'm just pointing this out, so you can prevent decisions that can hurt Coreboot in the long run and cause a new code overhaul(v4).</p><p>Best regards,</p>
<p> Tiago Marques</p><p></p><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Peter Stuge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@stuge.se">peter@stuge.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Tiago,<br>
<br>
Tiago Marques wrote:<br>
> > > Openmoko coreboot port or<br>
> ><br>
> > Probably not so useful. Is there a PCI bus in the Openmoko?<br>
><br>
> Why is this important?<br>
<br>
coreboot really does just two things; RAM init and bus init.<br>
<br>
The buses coreboot knows so far are V-Link, HT and PCI(e).<br>
(Did I miss some?)<br>
<br>
<br>
> Supposedly, the next iteration of Intel's Atom platform won't<br>
> feature a PCI bus, coreboot won't work with it?<br>
<br>
coreboot already does not work with much of Intel's hardware, I don't<br>
think a new Atom will have much effect on that.<br>
<br>
That aside, of course coreboot could be made to support Atom. If<br>
there's no PCI then maybe something else needs initialization,<br>
complex or simple.<br>
<br>
The point is that RAM and bus init is often pretty tricky, and on<br>
smaller systems with simpler buses there isn't as much for coreboot<br>
to do.<br>
<br>
But of course, coreboot should run everywhere! :p<br>
<br>
<br>
//Peter<br>
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